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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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Stream logs to AWS cloudwatch for better visibility.

For CD UNIX and CDWS Need stats/logs streamed to cloudwatch so they can be monitored and acted upon using our visibility tools. We do not have direct access to the containers for checking logs and rely upon automated solutions to monitor activity ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Stream logs to AWS cloudwatch for better visibility.

Need logs streamed to cloudwatch so they can be monitored and acted upon using our visibility tools. We do not have direct access to the containers for checking logs and rely upon automated solutions to monitor activity in the cloud.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Under review

Enable end users to replay their own files WITHOUT giving them any other administrative permissions.

End users often need to have files replayed due to various intermittent SFG error conditions. Allowing these users to replay their own files saves them time and saves SFG administrators the effort required to replay these files
about 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Support Ubuntu OS

Would provide additional options for installation using open-source systems for additional flexibility

SSH host Key only allowing dsa and rsa

One of our 3rd parties mentioned that they were planning on doing a change to Host Key Algorithms to allow rsa-sha2-512 rsa-sha2-256 As more clients are moving to secure host keys we would prefer to have this option
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Ability to manage multiple SSH Authorized user keys for a Partner

Currently we can only add/associate one SSH key to a user account from SFG UI. We need to go to SBI dashboard to associate multiple SSH keys to a user ID. This is a limitation within SFG UI but also adds a risk for user accounts which already have...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Add support for RSA-OAEP Encryption algorithms to Sterling Integrator & File Gateway

Clients who exchange files with external partners may need RSA-OAEP encryption algorithms. Currently this is supported as a web service but not in the core functionality of the product. Lack of this is preventing more secure transfers when using S...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 3 Not under consideration

AS2SendSyncMDN status should be reset to 'Success' after successful http POST and positive MDN

For AS2SendSyncMDN state is being set to 'Error' when a AS2 message fails to POST to the partner URL in the first attempt. However, in the next retry interval it is being successfully posted to customer and MDN received. AS2SendSyncMDN business pr...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

NCPDP Repetitive fields issue

Hello IBM, There are a few repetitive fields in NCPDP type tree (We are using v51 HISTORY) that when client sends data but skips the first fields and sends data in subsequent fields, ITX typetree treats it as coming in order thus we are not able t...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Planned for future release